From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 19:47:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA22360 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA22354 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA03512; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:28:13 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: john Burden cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <3165696B.3722@planb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, john Burden wrote: > I need to purchase a cd-rom for a 486 clone that will be running > FreeBSD. Does anybody have a suggestion as to wich brand will provide > the best service and compatibility or will any scsi cd do? Plextor 4Plex+ CDROM (maybe 6x), and an NCR/Symbios SCSI card. Won't hurt you too much and you'll have a great CDROM subsystem, with an option to add SCSI disks if you need them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major